Samuel Russell

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I do labour history, wikipedia and cow clickers. I also do "internet culture."

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Nov 18	comment	Evolution of United States' world role? BHP Steel Newcastle and Port Kembla where the US owners ensured that the plant was US controlled down to line managers. Imperialism isn't just capital ownership. Eric Eklund's Steel Town ought to cover Port Kembla for example.
Nov 1	comment	Are the Ramayana and Mahabharatha exaggerated stories or pure fiction? "Do we have corroborative archaeological evidence to say that they are not pure fiction?"—Prove me wrong.
Oct 27	awarded	Enlightened
Oct 21	revised	Microsocial behaviour 500 years ago in western societies added 287 characters in body
Oct 21	answered	Microsocial behaviour 500 years ago in western societies
Oct 7	revised	Is the killing between communists and Muslims in Indonesia during 1965 mutual? Full citations; we're answering questions
Sep 26	comment	How would one have gone about setting up a business during Communist Revolutionary China? Welcome to history.stackexchange! The Soviet system was radically different; as was the Chinese system prior to the cultural revolution.
Sep 19	answered	What was the origin of religious tolerance in Europe?
Sep 18	comment	What role did the space race play in reducing the nuclear threat during the 1960s? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… cites Filtzer, Donald (1992). Soviet Workers and de-Stalinization. which gives the standard labour productivity argument, also found in Miklos Haraszti's A worker in a worker's state. Any serious analysis of the 1950s and 1960s economic crises in the Soviet Bloc will suffice here. The Soviet economies were fine at growing while there was latent and untapped labour capacity, but faced resistance to work intensification, and high degrees of resistance to job redesign and reduction of rejected product rates.
Sep 17	answered	When did the Vietnam War start?
Sep 12	comment	What role did the space race play in reducing the nuclear threat during the 1960s? Your claims regarding the Soviet economy need revision. They're inaccurate regarding quantitative output capacities, the chief goals of the earlier five year plans. You could improve your answer by looking at the problem of the transition to quality.
Sep 11	awarded	Nice Answer
Sep 6	awarded	Revival
Aug 31	answered	What holidays would be on a European-centric calendar from the 11th - 13th Centuries?
Aug 31	comment	What is the history of gun culture of USA? This is an attempt to start a discussion; falsely premised and loaded with false facts.
Aug 31	comment	How much has U.S. currency inflated since 1792? I'm relying on the history of the A, C, C-Emended, and CPI series in Australia, and the history of their use in the Basic Wage and Margin cases.
Aug 30	comment	Which country can be viewed as the perfect example of “Capitalism”? Tony Cliff, and others of his ilk, claim the Soviet Union's continued wage labour and use of "value" in calculation of the economy made it "state capitalism." It is a cogent argument, the SU did run economic calculations as if commodities were in capitalism, and did viciously oppress workers as workers.
Aug 30	answered	Which country can be viewed as the perfect example of “Capitalism”?
Aug 30	comment	Which country can be viewed as the perfect example of “Capitalism”? T.E.D. their definition of economic freedom may be more related to the capacity of capital to reproduce itself without substantive intervention, rather than to abstract liberal concepts of negative freedoms from intervention.
Aug 30	comment	How much has U.S. currency inflated since 1792? I strongly disagree, Charles. Consumption bundles are meaningless when the socially determined necessities of life are constantly changing. In 1970 mobile telephony was not a requirement of a consumption bundle, in 2010 it is, even in Nigeria. CPI measures the "fair price" of labour to capitalists by defining a normative consumption bundle and attempting to force it on workers. Compare the CPI-U and SGS Alternate CPI in the graph in @T.E.D. 's post. The variance alone is demonstrative of the normative nature of CPI bundles. (edited to internationalise en-AU)